Institute of Mental Hygiene 2015-16 Annual Report

institute of mental hygiene

2015-2016

Annual Report

contents

Table of Contents Mission and Core Values

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Letter from Executive Director and Board President

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Profile of Children’s Bureau

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Summary of Grants by Type

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Advocacy Grants

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Nancy J. Aronson Core Support Grants

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Children’s Mental Health Grants

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Early Childhood Grants

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Financial Statement

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Board of Directors

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Adrian Morgan Tribute

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IMH’s mission is to

promote optimal

mental health for children and their

families in New Orleans.

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values

Core Values

IMH believes that mental health must be defined broadly and recognizes that the development of optimal mental health (sometimes referred to as social-emotional development) is affected by many factors.

We believe that it is important to build on successes by promoting best practices and innovative approaches that offer promise.

We believe that issues of race and culture affect mental health and the provision of services and should be addressed.

We believe that our grants should support programs that intentionally and specifically address the social-emotional development of low-income and/or underserved children and their families in Orleans Parish.

We believe that early intervention and prevention are the most effective approaches to promoting optimal mental health in children and their families in our community.

We believe that families are fundamental to their children’s social and emotional development and should be supported in their parenting.

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Letter from Executive Director and Board President The last year at IMH has been marked by change, growth and loss.

Due to existing multi-year commitments and a decrease in the foundation’s investment returns, IMH only had one new grant cycle in 2016. Nevertheless, we worked to deepen our impact on the mental health of New Orleans children by increasing our investment in advocacy and collective impact and continuing our legacy of children’s mental health and early childhood grants.

In 2015 and 2016, IMH made 18 grants totaling $1,403,960, including the greatest investment in advocacy strategies IMH has made to date. These investments seek to build the capacity of parents, children and the nonprofit organizations that serve them to improve local, state and federal policies for children.

In 2016, we also worked with our partners, the United Way of Southeast Louisiana and Converge, to develop a citywide campaign to improve the percentage of New Orleans children who are reading on grade level by the fourth grade. With 89% of African-American fourth graders not reaching this critical milestone, IMH is helping to design and launch a community-wide initiative to ensure more of our children are set up to succeed.

This annual report highlights the impact our investments can have over time as we partner with grantees. It features our longtime partner, the Children’s Bureau of New Orleans, which has worked tirelessly to address the grief and trauma that is faced far too frequently by far too many of our children in our community. The Children’s Bureau is a national leader in addressing grief and trauma in children. In the past six years, IMH’s support has helped the Children’s Bureau triple the number of children they serve annually to more than 3,000, without sacrificing quality or impact.

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The impact our grantees create in the lives of children would not be possible without the leadership of our Board of Directors.

Earlier this year, the entire IMH family was stunned by the sudden passing of our board member, Adrian Morgan. He worked most of his adult life as a child advocate and educational leader, leading charter school organizations that positively impacted thousands of children. He joined the IMH Board of Directors in 2014. We were honored to have had Adrian serve on our board and share his intelligence, energy and passion for education with us and the New Orleans community. Our time together was much too short.

In 2016, we also welcomed five new board members: Tap Bui, Leigh Ann Hoover, Mia Merrell, Maggie Runyan Shefa and Dr. Adewale Oyemade. We are honored to have their wisdom and expertise as we continue our work with dedicated partners to improve the mental health of children in New Orleans. As we enter our eightieth year, we will continue to build upon our legacy to create better outcomes for our city’s most vulnerable children.

Julius Kimbrough, President

Ron McClain, Executive Director

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Supporting a National Leader on Childhood Trauma: Children’s Bureau of New Orleans Over the past 25 years, the Institute of Mental Hygiene has provided more than $1.5 million in financial support for the Children’s Bureau of New Orleans. Over this time, the Children’s Bureau has grown from a relatively small agency focused on adoption and family counseling to a premiere mental health agency that provides community-based services to more than 3,000 children and their families each year.

Highlights of Children’s Bureau’s impact with IMH support in recent years include: Developing research capacity: IMH made two grants to support the evaluation of the effectiveness of Project LAST. One of the first programs of its kind in the country, Children’s Bureau first “For us, it is like launched Project winning an Oscar.

LAST in 1990 at the peak of New Orleans’ historically high murder rate to help Developing an children heal from the grief and trauma of losing a loved one to homicide or witnessing intervention community violence. In the beginning years of Project LAST, very little was known that makes the about how to effectively treat a child impacted by community violence. As a result, SAMHSA National Project LAST became a pioneer in this work, and, by attending to research emerging from the field of mental health, developed its own grief and trauma intervention.

Registry is huge Supporting Project LAST’s mantra of having research inform practice and practice for a communityinform research, IMH funded two studies of Project LAST’s intervention model. Each based organization study documented an element of the effectiveness of what came to be known as the like Children’s Grief and Trauma Intervention (GTI) as Project LAST adjusted its focus to include Bureau.” children who had been exposed to any type of trauma, including trauma associated with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

– Paulette Carter, Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Bureau of New Orleans

In addition to multiple peer-reviewed publications on the program and its impact, Project LAST earned recognition on the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health

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Services Administration (SAMHSA) Registry of Evidencebased Practices and Programs. It led to the publication of Grief and Trauma: An EvidenceBased Treatment Manual and the delivery of associated trainings that support mental health practitioners around the world in implementing Project LAST’s Grief and Trauma Intervention. Over the past three years, Project LAST also has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and featured in a documentary film first aired during National Crime Victim Awareness Week in 2015.

As a result of this work, Children’s Bureau has established data, evaluation and continuous learning practices that inform all of its programs. These practices have served as a strong foundation for growing services while maintaining quality and ensuring impact.

Leveraging new funding sources to serve more children: IMH’s core support over the past six years has helped Children’s Bureau triple the number of children served annually. Along with the hiring of a Deputy Director and development consultant, Children’s Bureau became an eligible Medicaid provider, which now provides them approximately $2 million in public funding annually to support counseling services and programmatic interventions for children. IMH support also helped Children’s Bureau launch an annual Children’s Heroes fundraiser and community recognition event to build awareness of the mental health needs of New Orleans children.

Moving to a systems-level approach: Research has documented that more than half of New Orleans children have lost a loved one to violence.1 In the face of this significant need, IMH’s support has helped Children’s Bureau shift its strategies to increase the capacities of the systems and institutions with which children interact to deal effectively with this trauma, in addition to its individual and group counseling work. As a result, Children’s Bureau now has its mental health professionals embedded in schools, workforce training programs and juvenile court and delivers training regularly to a wide range of practitioners from child care instructors to probation officers.

In 2000, IMH first supported Children’s Bureau in hiring an Infant Mental Health Specialist to build the agency’s capacity to support young children ages birth to five impacted by trauma and their families. Child development research has found that children develop the brain architecture during these early years that can impact social, emotional

1 Shervington, Denese. “Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Outcomes among Youth in New Orleans.” 142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

(November 15 – November 19, 2014). American Public Health Association, 2014.

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and academic outcomes later in life. It also has indicated that children ages five and under have unique needs and require unique interventions to support their healthy social and emotional development that are distinct from their older peers. IMH support allowed Children’s Bureau to develop the expertise to train child care providers in creating environments that are trauma-informed and optimally support the social and emotional development of young children.

“IMH’s Infant Mental Health investment allowed us to combine expertise in trauma with growing knowledge of early childhood development. It moved the agency forward in meeting the needs of young children, which are very different, developmentally, than the needs of older youth.”

– Paulette Carter, Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Bureau of New Orleans

Beginning in 2010, Children’s Bureau of New Orleans expanded this system-level work to schools. Working with Tulane University and McDonogh City Park Academy, Children’s Bureau piloted a comprehensive school-wide system of mental and behavioral health supports for students at McDonogh City Park Academy.

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This included teacher training, a universal social-emotional learning curriculum, and intensive mental health counseling for high-need students. During the period of the intervention, school suspensions decreased by 50%, student grade point averages increased, and 81% of students receiving services showed improvements in mental and behavioral health. This work laid the foundation for a $2.6 million National Institute of Justice research grant that supports a collaborative of community partners in providing coaching, training and direct GTI counseling to five schools. The grant, which was awarded in 2015 to Tulane University as the lead agency, supports an academic and community-based research team in conducting the first controlled study of the impact trauma-informed approaches in schools can have on disciplinary referrals, bullying, victimization, suspensions and expulsions.

IMH Grants to Children’s Bureau Year

Amount

Purpose / Outcomes

1990

Term

1

$941

Staff Development

1991

36

$259,876

Children’s Mental Health

1995

12

$151,988

Children’s Mental Health

1997

1

$1,000

Technical Assistance

1998

12

$65,000

Technical Assistance and Core Support

1999

12

$722

Staff Development

2000

36

$168,645

Early Childhood Mental Health

2003

11

$40,000

Early Childhood Mental Health (continued)

2005

24

$302,188

Research on the effectiveness of Project LAST

2007

4

$1,650

Technical Assistance

2008

24

$87,308

Additional research on the effectiveness of Project LAST

2010

36

$150,000

Nancy J. Aronson Core Support

2011

12

$10,000

Children’s Mental Health

2014

24

$100,000

Nancy J. Aronson Core Support (continued)

(in months)

Summary

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Summary of Grants by Type

GRANT TYPE

October 22, 2015 – December 31, 2016

GRANT COUNT

GRANT AMOUNT

Advocacy

2

$200,000

Nancy J. Aronson Core Support

2

$300,000

11

$834,460

3

$69,500

18

$1,403,960

Children’s Mental Health Early Childhood 2015-2016 Grand Totals

For grant application guidelines, deadlines and details, please visit www.imhno.org or call (504) 566-1862.

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Advocacy Grants IMH supports advocacy as a strategy to work toward increased public support for the full range of mental health services for children and their families and toward the development of policies and regulations that promote quality in the supports and services available to all children.

IMH also supports organizational efforts to increase and strengthen the voices of children, parents and caretakers in their communities; and we will support convenings to better inform the public on issues relating to children’s optimal development and mental health.

LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS $50,000

Children and Youth Planning Board Youth Transitioning out of Foster Care SILENCE IS VIOLENCE $150,000

Victim Allies Project

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Nancy J. Aronson Core Support Grants IMH provides Core Support Grants to mental health organizations with a proven record of accomplishment.

These grants are intended to provide stable yet flexible dollars to organizations addressing the mental health needs of children and their families. These grants are named the Nancy J. Aronson Core Support Grants Program in recognition of the sixteen-year tenure of the first director of IMH and her commitment to supporting the work of nonprofits in the community. Applications are by invitation only.

FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS CORE SUPPORT $150,000 ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK $150,000

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Children’s Mental Health Grants IMH accepts applications for programs providing comprehensive mental health services in public schools and community based programming.

Comprehensive Mental Health Services in Public School Settings IMH defines comprehensive mental health services as the range of services necessary to address the barriers to learning that many children experience. We are especially interested in efforts that address the barriers that stem from emotional and behavioral issues/problems, which must be integrated with efforts to address barriers that stem from learning and physical health problems. We believe that comprehensive mental health services need to be rooted in a school climate that welcomes and nurtures students and their families. IMH supports the use of prevention programs to build the social and emotional competence of the entire school population.

Community Based Services IMH supports efforts to increase the availability of prevention, early intervention and treatment services in community settings. Such efforts might include the co-location of mental health services with other well-utilized services for children and their families. IMH supports the provision of services in locations that are easily accessible to vulnerable populations. We also support the development of partnerships and collaborations between multiple organizations that serve the same population.

BOY SCOUTS $50,000

TULANE UNIVERSITY $56,780

ScoutReach

Cornerstone Support

CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS $18,000

$100,000

Isaiah 43: Parenting and Mentoring Program

$81,200

ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC $100,000

$92,925

Counseling Services LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER $50,555

Autism Spectrum SILVERBACK SOCIETY $175,000

Mentoring Program

TCARD Community Talk, Touch & Listen New Orleans Day Treatment VIA LINK $60,000

Y Texting YAYA $50,000

Family Arts

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Early Childhood Grants IMH seeks to strengthen and sustain policies, programs, and providers focusing on early childhood and families with children ages birth to six years.

IMH funds programs that 1) increase the number of children ready for kindergarten by building their social and behavioral skills; 2) improve the social and emotional well-being of children in early childhood programs; 3) assist parents and caretakers in parenting their children; and 4) improve the effectiveness of parents and organizations in advocating for programs and policies that address the social and emotional needs of young children. In reviewing applicants, we look for the use of evidence-based approaches. IMH also funds early intervention and treatment programs for young children with mental health issues.

CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING $37,500

Teens & Tots Program EARLY LEARNING FOCUS, INC. $10,000

Early Childhood Education & Reading Readiness Program NOBLE MINDS INSTITUTE FOR WHOLE CHILD LEARNING $22,000

Whole Child Learning

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INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HYGIENE OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Statement of Financial Position ASSETS ––––––––––––––––––––––––

2015

2014

CURRENT ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents Accrued investment income Prepaid excise taxes Prepaid expenses Total Current Assets

$ 1,115,945

$ 3,710,042

11,966

8,938

0

18,769

3,750

0

1,131,661

3,737,749

21,995

21,995

17,888

16,243

4,107

5,752

December 31, 2015 and 2014

SUPPORT, REVENUES AND GAINS ––––––

2015

2014

Investment Income Net realized and unrealized gains (losses) on investments

$ 271,436

$ 365,540

(1,088,589)

(220,614)

(817,153)

144,926

Total Support, Revenue and Gains (losses)

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT

Furniture and equipment Less: Accumulated depreciation Total Property and Equipment OTHER ASSETS

Investments TOTAL ASSETS

18,605,056 $19,740,824

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS –––––

18,720,827 $22,464,328

2015

2014

EXPENSES ––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Program Services: Grants made to charitable organizations Bridges to Quality expenses Shared Services Alliance expenses Total Program Services Supporting Services: Investment expenses Management and general Total Supporting Services

2015

2014

1,730,687

1,340,180

0

316,500

0

390

$1,730,687

$1,657,070

127,553

131,965

281,278

317,705

408,831

449,670

2,139,518

2,106,740

($2,956,671)

(1,961,814)

2015

2014

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Accounts payable Grants payable - Current portion Total Current Liabilities

$

27,232

$

25,240

1,264,684

1,031,949

1,291,916

1,057,189

TOTAL EXPENSES

(DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS

LONG-TERM LIABILITIES

Grants payable - Net of current portion Total Liabilities NET ASSETS

Unrestricted TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

449,324

450,884

1,741,240

1,508,073

NET ASSETS ––––––––––––––––––––––––

14/15 BEGINNING OF YEAR

17,999,584

20,956,255

$19,740,824

$22,464,328

END OF YEAR

20,956,255

22,918,069

$17,999,584

$20,956,255

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2015 Board of Directors Julius E. Kimbrough, Jr., MBA, MPP President Mahlon D. Sanford, CPA Vice President Carol Wise, BA Secretary Beverly R. Nichols, CPS Treasurer Allison Boothe, PhD Tap Bui, MPH Ayanna Butler, JD J. Storey Charbonnet, BS Martin Drell, MD Hon. Bernadette D’Souza, JD David Francis, MBA LeighAnn Hoover, JD, LMSW Mia D. Merrell, BBA Adewale O. Oyemade, MD Maggie Runyan-Shefa, MPA Jilla K. Tombar, MPD Qi Wiggins, MLA Ronald P. McClain, JD, LCSW-BACS Executive Director

editing CONVERGE design Dandelion Design

Earlier this year, IMH was devastated by the passing of

Adrian Morgan,

our friend and board member.

We continue our work in his honor.

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